Unfortunately, it seems it will take time. The orange muck is everywhere. Even the probes are collecting small amounts of the material. They need more of these salvaged dreadnoughts to do the job. At this rate, maybe in about fifteen to twenty years, the world will be pristine again.
What about the ocean, though? The wildlife is mostly dead now. The sea levels have risen as well. The Itreans are going to inherit the world that humanity walked away from. The T'rintar don't care, though, and they have learned to be patient.
It is still a good sign, though. Maybe one day, Earth will look better. Perhaps you will get to swim in its ocean and breathe its fresh air like the humans did hundreds of years ago. The T'rintar seem to be fulfilling their part of the bargain. Itrea will look like a beautiful planet once again.
We leave now. Let the ships do their job. Earth.....Itrea.....it is in good hands now. Let them clean up the mess. We aren't here to glorify in the past or the future of this planet. It is just one of the planets that were controlled by the United World's Alliance. Let the politicians and people argue what is right and wrong. It is in the history books now.
We zoom and fly out of the clouds of black and gray. We fly faster than anything until we look at Earth one last time. We see the edge of Africa and the European Islands. Orange and gray illuminate the landscape as we get further and further away. Our destination was not Earth. We were here last time, and it is time to move on.
Instead, we are back in the blackness of space, gazing down upon Earth. No sound, no air, and only the light from the distant star called Sol. Space produces no sound, but we can still listen. We switch as we begin to hear the sounds of the electromagnetic waves. Space finds a way to call to us, and with the right ear, we can listen to it. You know the sounds of Jupiter and Saturn. This solar system alone is filled with different harmonic music that it produces that sings to your ear.
Earth, even with the environmental changes, still produces a similar harmonic tone of its own. It provides its own magnetic field that resonates with the sun. It almost sounds like a wind blowing. In the distance of the hum is an electronic cave wind sound that rises and falls every few seconds. Occasionally it produces a high-frequency electronic chirping to it that follows along with the cave wind hum. It is beautiful to hear. The planet almost sounds like its alive.
Of course, it isn't the only thing producing sound. We turn our attention to Sol itself. Sol is the guardian of the solar system. Without Sol, humans, and Itreans wouldn't exist. Light and energy flow for eons of years. Earth and the neighboring planets are used to it and can't operate without it.
The sounds of the sun are unusual. It is deep and continuous. We fly faster than anyone can as well get closer to it. We are at a distance from Mercury to Sol. The musical tone that the sun generates permeates our ears. What you hear is a deep heartbeat sound. It rises and resonates up and down twice a second. It is a pulsating sound of electromagnetic fields, and the reason is quite apparent.
From Mercury, Sol is enormous. It is so close that a year on Mercury is almost every 88 days. The sun is twice the size when looking from Earth. You feel some relief seeing the sun. It was quite hard to see Sol from Earth with the thick gray haze blocking most of it. Instead, Mercury gets roasted by the sun having temperatures that can reach as high as 427 degrees Celsius. It is believed that the planet might have been a gas giant at one time, but the gas was burnt away as Sol got older and more prominent. Instead, Mercury is reduced to a solid, dense sphere of radiation and heat.
The musical tone of Sol continues to sing. The reverberating sound continues. The sun is an engine that continues to burn its hydrogen at a regular rate. The G-Type star is not too big and not too small. The music also provides us with something that we can do as we get even closer to Sol. We can see other things. The light is intense. Heat is engulfing us as we look upon the surface of the sun. No star is perfect. The engine runs continuously, and the magnetic field is immense. Electrically charged gases are pushed around with tremendous force in different waves. The sounds you hear almost sound like you are underwater as you hear energy swimming around you. The photosphere of the surface of the sun generates areas darker than most. Sunspots are formed where the heat is less than other portions. The magnetic field will flux and......
You see it. A large rubber band of flames and heat erupts near the sunspot. It is so bright that it is brighter than the surface of the sun. You even have to avert your eyes because it is brighter than anything you have ever seen. The rubber band stretches outward as you continue to hear the sounds of a solar flare.
Finally, for what lasts about half a minute, the brightness lowers down. You look upon it as you see the rubber band stretch outward to the cosmos. The plasma is being pushed outward, but it wants to come back to the sun. You watch as a beautiful spectacle takes place. The rubber band has stretched as far as it could, as you can see, the plasma rain of flames begins to form a half-ring that is slowly falling back to the sun. Sol is just like the other stars out there. It reaches out, trying to call to others to let itself be known that it exists. A minute goes by as you continue to watch the ring of flames return back to the sun. Like a waterfall flowing in two directions, the plasma has nowhere to go but back from where it came.
Unfortunately, there is a cost to these beautiful events. The bright flash of light is also a sign of intense radiation being flung from the surface of Sol. Like a gun, the solar flare has sent a bullet of intense radiation from the solar flare. The magnetic field results in radiation that can quickly kill life on Earth without the proper shielding. Satellites, equipment, and other things not protected against the electromagnetic pulse can be destroyed and rendered inoperable. Life on Earth has been used to these flares. Some say that Sol is relatively calm in its solar flares, while others say it is just as active as the other stars in the cosmos.
Maybe the only way to answer this question is to look at the other stars around us. What is the closest star from Sol? The answer is obvious. We turn our sights as we start to leave Sol. We no longer need to be bathed in its holy light. Humanity has found other worlds. We gave up on Earth, and it is time to venture outward.
We watch together as we leave Sol. It begins to get farther and farther away. Traveling faster than any individual has ever gone before, we watch as Sol, Mercury, and the other planets of the Sol system vanish from our sights. It is nothing but a grain of sand in the Milky Way Galaxy. Further and further we go, we see that even if Sol is a G-Type star, it is nothing. It produces a white light, but then it is barely noticed. Instead, we see numerous stars all around us. Big, small, it doesn't matter. The galaxy is enormous.
As we turn away from the insignificant sight of Sol, we see that we are zooming into a nearby star. In fact, it isn't just one star; it is three. It is located over four light-years away from Sol. The nearby star system is aptly named Alpha Centauri. What looks like a single star actually has two stars that are caught in perpetual orbit from each other. The biggest is named Alpha Centauri A. It is a G-Type star, much like Sol but slightly bigger. The sister star, Alpha Centauri B, is a K-Type star but is somewhat smaller than Sol.
This star system alone has already warranted human exploration. Humans wanted to explore this system for a long time. Four light years seemed like a hopping distance, but the fact was that it was impossible to reach on conventional drives. Four light-years might as well be a death sentence to travel. The speed of light, the fastest known method of travel, took four years to reach it. Regardless, we get to the point that we see the two stars as they stand together proud, locked in an eternal dance together.
Surprisingly, though, this star cluster has another star in it, and it is this that we zoom in on. It is a small star and has a reddish glow to it. It is orbiting both the two stars like it was caught and perpetually trapped with the dancing sisters. It is an M-Type star, also known as a red dwarf star. These are the smaller stars of the galaxy. They are so dim that we can barely see it. The red dwarfs are much smaller than Sol, and it will be these stars that last the longest of all. Both Alpha Centauri A and B will be reduced to white dwarfs while this red dwarf star still continues on.
